Lingua (sculpture)
The Lingua is a sculpture by American artist Jim Sanborn located at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center.Sculpture
Lingua is composed of two 16' tall cylinders, with text cut with a water jet cutter in Russian, Mandarin Chinese, Ethiopian, French, Spanish, Latin, Greek, and Iroquois. The texts are historical texts from as far back as 1400 BC.
The Russian-language section is a quote from Leo Tolstoys War and Peace.
